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Each year, the Marine Affairs Institute takes RWU Law students on an educational cruise on Narragansett Bay. This trip helps first year students better understand many of the marine and maritime issues affecting Rhode Island and New England.

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From the PROVIDENCE JOURNAL: "What would Roger Williams have done?" by Ed Fitzpatrick
January 29, 2012: What would Roger Williams have thought about the prayer banner at Cranston High School West?
[...] David A. Logan -- dean of the state's only law school, which is at a university named for Roger Williams -- said Ahlquist fits into a tradition of courageous plaintiffs, exemplified by "the lonely pamphleteer," who adopt a minority viewpoint, face ostracism...

"Church and State in Western Society: Established Church, Cooperation and Separation" by Edward J. Eberle, Roger Williams University School of Law
The role of religion as a contentious and motivating force in society is examined here through the lens of the church-state dynamic in countries with three very different approaches to this crucial relationship. Focusing on the United Kingdom, where there is official recognition of one religion by the state, the United States, where law imposes a...